ARIANA Madix has been called out for lip-syncing during her performance at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Madix appeared on NBC’s live broadcast of the 98th annual parade to sing Lovefool by The Cardigans – but eagle-eyed viewers quickly accused her of faking the performance.
Fans were critical of her singing in front of Macy’s Herald Square during the parade in New York City on Thursday morning.
The Vanderpump Rules star has appeared on Broadway and often speaks about her theater background, but viewers still doubted her performance.
“Oh dear. Ariana Madix may be good on broadway but lip syncing is not her forté,” one wrote on X.
“Ariana Madix with the most obvious lip sync maybe ever,” another added.
“You could tell Ariana Madix was lip syncing because she wasn’t whining through the microphone,” another bashed.
“I wanna know who at NBC signed off on Ariana Madix getting up on a float and lip synching. It was way too obvious,” one wrote.
“An absolutely atrocious sync to a nightmare cover of one of my favorite songs of all time,” another slammed.
“I’ve seen what I need to see: She gets this year’s Jimmy F*llon Award for Flop Sync of the Parade.”
Others praised her performance while still maintaining that her vocals were pre-recorded.
“Why is Ariana Madix the only person that knows how to accurately lip sync everyone else has been struggling all morning at this parade,” one X user wrote.
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Madix is just one of many celebrities to appear in today’s parade, including Jimmy Fallon, Idina Menzel, and Jennifer Hudson.
Fallon appeared at the beginning of the parade and sparked confusion as he wore sunglasses in the rainy November weather.
The Tonight Show host was also accused of lip-syncing during his performance with The Roots.
Fallon and Madix aren’t the only stars accused of lip-syncing as viewers also questioned vocals from Joey McIntyre, Dasha, and even T-Pain.
Thanksgiving parade performers
THIS year’s Thanksgiving Day parade features a star-studded roster. Here is a list of who will appear:
- Jennifer Hudson
- Kylie Minogue
- Billy Porter
- Loud Luxury
- Cole Escola
- Bishop Briggs
- Kylie Cantrall
- Chlöe
- Dan + Shay
- Dasha
- Jimmy Fallon & The Roots
- Coco Jones
- Walker Hayes
- Ariana Madix
- Joey McIntyre
- Idina Menzel
- Natti Natasha
- T-Pain
- Rachel Platten
- Lea Salonga
- The Temptations
- The War and Treaty
- Alex Warren
- Sebastián Yatra
- Charli D’Amelio
- Tiler Peck and Roman Mejia
“The lip syncing at the macy’s parade gets worse and worse every year and i love it,” one wrote on X.
“My fav thanksgiving day activity is watching the parade and decipher who’s lip syncing and who isn’t (it’s so easy),” another shared.
A third wrote, “I swear the lip syncing at the Thanksgiving Day Parade somehow finds a way to get worse every year.”
END OF AN ERA
Madix’s performance comes just days after VPR, which first aired in 2013, announced the show’s next season will feature an entirely new cast.
Lisa Vanderpump, the show’s executive producer and frontwoman, announced the news in a statement wishing luck to the Season 12 cast.
Madix paid tribute to her time on the show with an Instagram post, writing, “Vanderpump rules, you will forever be that girl.
“I was up til 4am looking for all the right pics and the right words, but there’s no post or caption that could ever encapsulate everything.”
“I’m feeling at peace with closing this chapter and im excited for everything that is to come,” she wrote.
“I don’t know that these were the best days of our lives, but they were definitely something special.”
